skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we are going all “risky social experiment”, one could argue that almost all of humanity worked from home/neighborhood until passenger rail showed up in the mid 19th Century, and thus the actual anomalous human situation/experiment has been the last 150 years of commuting to work from home. A time of two World Wars and many major bloody military conflicts, breakdown of the family, weakening of community, growth and spread of colonialism, etc.. Perhaps Africa could have been spared the blessing of European colonialism if Nigel, Jacque, Fritz etc. had stayed at home making shoes. (Or maybe not.)

Humans and associated social institutions evolved out of a WFH culture for hundreds of years, and perhaps those time-proven institutions would work better in 2024 if we returned to a WFH culture. Commuting culture may have been the “massive risky social experiment” of the last Century.
This is super interesting.

I'm still waiting for a model that generates images as part of its thought process. That's what I was hoping this was!

I wonder what it would take to train a proof of concept. Maybe start with videos of people whiteboarding and explaining math or solving engineering problems visually. Then, create captions that frame these as word problems. Train the model so that, during inference, it generates images—not necessarily for human viewing, but as part of its internal reasoning.
This stat is disingenuous.

1. $2500 is one year of cable + streaming services required to watch every football game. If you don’t have cable it’s $1700.

2. $1700 is the cost to maintain all of those services year round; the regular season + playoffs is 5 months long

It’s probably more like $800, which is still a lot, especially when they’re already monetizing the product by shoving ads down our throats every 30 seconds (though it’s a different “they”)
That's not a lovely response. It's a simplistic response that totally misses the point. The cost of rent is a function of many different factors, which vary depending on location in space and time. Some of the time that may include greed on the part of landlords, some of the time that may play a very minor role.

Your own response is similarly simplistic. The meaning of "property" is defined by government, at all times and in all places. The precise meaning varies, but there being limits on what rights it comes with is not a violation of your "property rights" - it is actually the very definition of what property means.
My only useful takeaway was on page 68 when Val Forgett talks about being specific and complete in every communication.
My theory here is that in the past many things have been over engineered or designed. Now all this fat is being optimized out and the weak spots are showing. But there is still a delay between the engineering change and the weak spots emerging.
Toward testing the quantum behavior of gravity: A photonic quantum simulation
"Photonic implementation of quantum gravity simulator" (2024)
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/advanced-photoni...
> Programming should be fun.

Alan Perlis quote: "I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more."

- "Quoted in The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Hal Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman and Julie Sussman (McGraw-Hill, 2nd edition, 1996)" via https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis

(Perhaps relevant to this article/overall thread: "Programmers should never be satisfied with languages which permit them to program everything, but to program nothing of interest easily.")
I've slowly become more reclusive, and have been working from home since COVID. I think it's killing me.
Sofa!
If Wallmart couldn't extract capital it wouldn't come to town.

What business do you think they're in?
I can see that such problems are prevalent in any large society with a low standard of living and therefore fewer opportunities. Or you could say that too much competition and fighting for mere survival corrupts people.

But I don't know if the situation is as hopeless as the author describes. Maybe in a personal sense it is hopeless to change society. But there is always a larger undercurrent that we often overlook. Nature dictates that everything that is damaged beyond repair will be destroyed. And rebuilt, renewed.

And in this sense: happy holidays and a happy new year!
Oncologists making treatment decisions are generally using real computers, not toy mobile devices.
No, because to everyone's _complete shock_, it turns out it's actually pretty hard to write code that doesn't have bugs in it, and in the case of a "contract", that makes the mistaken behavior binding (except of course if you have everyone with a stake collectively vote to decide that something never happened, which means that any group that owns a combined 51% stake effectively owns the entire 100%).

Don't get me wrong, there's plenty to criticize in the legal system(s) that are currently used in society, but having disputes resolved via a human-based mechanism rather than a technical one isn't one of them. Smart contracts aren't even just the usual "trying and failing to apply a technical solution to a social problem", they're a failed technical solution to an _entirely invented_ new problem that no one had before.
"The boom and bust cycle is a process of economic expansion and contraction that occurs repeatedly. The boom and bust cycle is a key characteristic of capitalist economies and is sometimes synonymous with the business cycle." [1] Somewhat similar is the bullwhip effect[2], although there isnt a long supply chain for labor.

1. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/boom-and-bust-cycle.asp
2. https://www.investopedia.com/bullwhip-effect-definition-5499...
> For this reason I think WFH is a massively more risky social experiment than most realize. It works for folks who were either already inclined to "go out and do things" or those who already had established social groups. We will see how this pans out in a generation or two.

I wonder if this would vary by country and culture?

I wonder if there is a statistically noticeable difference in experience between places like the US and Northern Europe that seem to be more more work-focused compared to Southern European countries like Spain and Italy which have a reputation for having a better work/life balance.
What type of MCU sensor is on the pee bucket? How would one communicate with it?
Just remember it, love the language.
Solar, EVs and a Big Exit from Coal: 2024's Good Climate News
Given the endless announcements of so-called "AGI" being achieved, I would just prepare for the mass layoffs in 2025.

"AGI" just means anything at this point and it is commonly associated to mean:

"Raise more money to achieve AGI that replaces humans at almost any economically valuable task."

That is what it really means. A Christmas present to McKinsey, Accenture and KPMG.
https://archive.today/sfa6Z
Yes.

As you noted, the first[1] batch of mass-media "influencers" were AM Radio hosts, then came cable infotainment , and now vloggers.

1. Perhaps preceded by syndicated newspaper columnists, but there was an editorial filter for those.
If extracted and fully oxidized, the water would raise ocean levels maybe 4 cm.

The Earth also includes vast quantities of reduced metals like iron, more than enough to react with all the oxygen in the atmosphere. Perhaps some way could be found to exploit that, at least a little bit.
Same. Friends who just threw money at stuff are millionaires, and I'm... not. Hard to just put the money in and expect more back when it took so much hard work to get in the first place.
This is garbage. There are lots of things wrong in India and should be discussed (as in many other countries) but the vitriol in this article is off the charts and mostly has no basis in facts. This is just rabid Anti-Indian sentiment masquerading as scholarly commentary.
Please more leagues just give me a reasonably priced service to get all the games. In the US, the full F1 season is $90. The full MLB season can be had for about $100 if you buy it on sale. I got last season for $40 by waiting until June. I don't generally follow such a long season until about then anyway. College football is about all I'm missing. That still requires a cable/streaming sub. I can wait until March and do a one month sub to get my college basketball fix. I pay for Peacock every July for Le Tour.

NBA is dead to me. NHL is fine but not worth paying for. Not a big NFL fan and I'd buy MLS if it were unbundled from AppleTV+. I'm not paying for both.

Just one man's opinion.
Where in the world do you live? Why is it like that?
My thoughts exactly. Surely somebody will take on this important work
I have to use VS for work and Intellisense can be so annoying. Too slow (I've already completed the word), or unhelpful. Example: Accessing elements in a 3d vector, having already typed "var." it pops up with the options, x, y, or z, every time. It's not saving me any keypresses, especially after I've already accessed some elements so I know the members of the struct. Also, how about matching to variables or types from the local scope outwards rather than offer something in a system header not present in any preceding code.

So I have it disabled and just search for things (another thing VS can go complete blank on), keeping the relevant file open in another window for reference, which means I also get to read all the comments in the code before using it.
We studied the ultrastructure of the ultrablack cuticle in Traumatomutilla bifurca, an enigmatic and visually striking species of velvet ants (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae). Using a combination of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM), and optical spectroscopy, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of the cuticle to elucidate its unique optical properties. SEM imaging provided a detailed surface morphology, while TEM provided insights into the internal structure. CLSM showed that the cuticle exhibits no autofluorescence. Our findings reveal a highly specialized cuticle, characterized by microstructures that effectively minimize reflectance and enhance light absorption. Optical spectrometry confirmed the ultrablack nature of the cuticle, with the measured reflectance approaching minimal levels across a broad spectrum of wavelengths. Therefore, our study contributes to a deeper understanding of ultrablack biological materials and their potential applications in biomimetics.

The abstract linked from the article. Hope they update Wikipedia. https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/articles/15/122
Thanks for your reply. I was able to signup after I deactivated my ad blocker in the browser for your website.
There's mens shed in Australia, sounds a bit like what you're saying https://mensshed.org
At some point you price out an entire generation and find they've moved on to something else like e-sports.
CalDigit TS4 is the best dock I've used. I tried several. I get 2.5 GB Ethernet, two external 4k monitors, and much throughput.
I think there is value in following the causality and moving closer to the root cause. It can help people take meaningful action.
> Deep learning and LLMs advanced so quickly that a large bust in AI didn’t really occur.

I think the problem is we railroad too much. It’s LLMs/large models or bust. It can be hard to even publish if you aren’t using one (e.g. build on a pertained model). The problem is putting all our eggs in one basket when we should diversify. The big tech companies hired a lot of people to freely research but research just narrowed. We ignored the limitations that many discussed for a long time and we could have solved them by now if we just spent a small portion of the time and money we have on railroad topics.

What I’ve seen is research become very product focused. Fine for industry research but we have to also have the more academic research. Academic is supposed to do the low TRL (1-4) while industry does higher (like 4-6). But when it’s all mid or high you got nothing in the pipeline. Even if the railroad will get us there there’s always other ways and ways to increase efficiency.

This is a good time to have this conversation as we haven’t finished CVPR reviews. So if you’re a reviewer, an AC, or meta, remember this when evaluating. Evaluate beyond benchmarks and remember the context of the compute power people have. If you require more than an A100 node you only allow industry. Most universities don’t even have a full node without industry support.

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/space-communications-...
I’m not sure if you’re joking but just in case…

Sometimes CEO’s, politicians, etc use phrases that don’t necessarily mean what a literal interpretation of them would suggest.
A bit of a drip if you ask me. The whole thing reeks of stale body fluids. Why don't you piss off and make something useful?

Seriously though, this is a hits the sweet spot of being useless and funny perfectly.
Like how LLMs tend to get tripped up by questions that are phrased like well-known riddles, it turns out you can trip up vision models with images that resemble well-known optical illusions. Overfitting strikes again.

https://x.com/kosa12matyas/status/1871256745403953572
If you haven't already, now might be a good time to sell some of that bitcoin
Such are the mechanics of fascist dictatorships. Individuals are in no way empowered to think or act in ways not supporting the Great Leader. You being unsafe is the method of control.

Take care, America.
Defaulting the search to Google in Safari in no way impairs the users ability to choose an alternative search engine. Apple have always left the search setting changeable, for a long time have allowed 3rd party browsers and have allowed other browsers to be the default system browser. This is hardly a monopoly and it’s no secret that Google is paying them gobs of money to be the default. It’s a separate issue from their appstore business entirely where security and privacy are legitimate arguments for the control they exert on that business.
Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
It seems the day has arrived. Merry Christmas from the folks at Google, I guess.
We'll look back and see with clear eyes the transient phenomena that made strange and magical meme stocks and unicorns what they all were. Somewhere in the last 50 years stock investing turned from green-eye-shade economic analysis to a social phenomena that couldn't be bothered with dividends and profits.

I go to the supermarket and milk is on sale, I buy two. But momo clowns go and see milk is on sale and they try to sell the milk they have on hand back to the store. They don't act like the products they buy have fundamental value, because in many cases that value was inflated wildly beyond justification long before the trader ever got started.
Rock on \m/
> I find it a sad thing that often great achievements and ruthlessness go hand in hand.

That may be true (plenty of examples), but it may also be an outlier. It might be more common for talented individuals to work cooperatively, in a way that leads to breakthroughs, but without anyone trying to steal all the credit. I emphasize this is just a theory, in a field that cannot be reduced to science.

I've met many talented people over decades, in effective teams, but worked with only one classic martinet -- Steve Jobs. To hear Steve tell it, he was the reason for Apple's success. But he didn't design anything -- he was a salesman, not an engineer. In fairness, his incompetent replacements were in every way worse.

This thread is perfectly timed. We're about to see another martinet try to steal credit for the accomplishments of others, while denying responsibility for errors along the way.
Reasoning models are supposed to be able to work around that kind of limitation (o1 was code named strawberry after all) so it’s not a bad test IMO.
yeah same... but then i got an ad for Pie, which i guess works to block youtube ads
It's a bit like the insurance market. We buy insurance because bearing the cost of misfortune is too much to bear as an individual.

In the same way, paying hundreds of dollars to fix a broken window is a significant burden to the individual owner. Paying an extra dollar on my Walmart bill is much easier to absorb.
Yes if the market goes up a lot you win. That's generally how leverage works. The problem is when it goes down. Or, if you're borrowing at high interest, doesn't go up quite as much. (Which leads to many people selling, which drives the price down, which leads to selling, and so on).
I used to be like this! then I figured out the reason what makes making new friends hard, I became more relaxed hanging out and reaching out to new friends, now I can enjoy both new and old friends' accompany, tho I'm still working on making myself more comfortable making friends.
If the hydrogen gas escaped and left the atmosphere, would it affect the orbit around the sun, possibly causing the Earth to cool too much?
Totally. And everytime someone sobers up, there is a cabal of people saying "we've sunk however many $$$ into this, it's the core feature of the xx roll-out...drink up, the hype party continues, like it or not...." So now you see phenoms like the one-time 'premier tier subscriber only feature of co-pilot on Github now pushed to everyone, prompts to use the generative A.I in iStock on every page, compulsory "use Co-pilot to write your draft' prompts on every new doc in MS Word - because I don't think companies are able to grok the widespread disinterest in much of it. I'm still waiting for one that will be non-networked and sit on my desktop to do my tax returns and haggle with phone company bots.
Can't you already contract with Samsung?

The problem is Samsung's chips aren't as good, not even close. Google Tensor is basically a full generation behind Qualcomm, with most benchmarks showing 30%+ gains by Qualcomm.

The only reason to choose them is cost, and there's already stiff competition there.
ScholarlyArticle: "Bright, circularly polarized black-body radiation from twisted nanocarbon filaments" (2024)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq4068
Management and communication is evidently quite a bit harder.
> The shell is my development environment

*Hell
Sure maybe, but that depends the DOJ’s actions. Also depends on the buyer, the search engine alternatives, whether DOJ allow Google to pay to be the default, etc.
I have a sneaking suspicion if you walked your house plants you'd meet many new people.

If I didn't already have a dog, I might build a robotic platform so that I could wander to the park with a dwarf fruit tree in tow.
Well there's an idea for a sci-fi disaster book: "Rustpocalypse" (if too much of that iron were to be oxidized.)
In essence, that is what HallusionBench[0] does. While I think it is an improvement over other vision benchmarks, it still falls short in terms of quantifying actual vision capabilities. More than anything, it seems like a way to detect whether the model was over trained on these riddles.

[0] https://github.com/tianyi-lab/HallusionBench
My current visual reasoning test is seeing if models can figure out what train to take to get from stop A to B when not all trains go to both stops.

Something like: https://www.caltrain.com/media/22502/

So far none pass (mostly from basic cell orientation issues)
Print is simply dying. Heck, even at airports, it used to be a requirement that you'd have your ticket/itinerary printed but now most officials will accept your phone receipts.
How Hallucinatory A.I. Helps Science Dream Up Big Breakthroughs
Interesting... I submitted 2 photos of Mao Zedong, one time it came back blank and the other time it error'd. It also came back blank for Xi Jinping & Jack Ma.

It did tell identify Yao Ming though!
Unfortunately everything I've asked any of the main LLMs about where I actually legit knew the precise answer, they were wrong or half-right but excluding important context.
https://archive.ph/qlq36
"Culture is your operating system" ~ Terence McKenna
As far as I understood it reduces temperature also because it boils so easily (very low boiling point). That pulls energy from the fuel. As well as capturing oxygen.

This is why it was used as a refrigerant also.

Also if the fuel is below the auto ignition temperature but above flashpoint it would need another spark to re-ignite.
Arxiv:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07292

[Submitted on 14 Jan 2024 (v1), last revised 23 Oct 2024 (this version, v3)]
Embezzling entanglement from quantum fields
Lauritz van Luijk, Alexander Stottmeister, Reinhard F. Werner, Henrik Wilming

Embezzlement of entanglement refers to the counterintuitive possibility of extracting entangled quantum states from a reference state of an auxiliary system (the "embezzler") via local quantum operations while hardly perturbing the latter. We uncover a deep connection between the operational task of embezzling entanglement and the mathematical classification of von Neumann algebras. Our result implies that relativistic quantum fields are universal embezzlers: Any entangled state of any dimension can be embezzled from them with arbitrary precision. This provides an operational characterization of the infinite amount of entanglement present in the vacuum state of relativistic quantum field theories.
As spockz pointed out, you’re looking for the new type pattern. Rust supports this explicitly but you’ve got to do some workarounds to get it in typescript.

https://kubyshkin.name/posts/newtype-in-typescript/

Unfortunately doesn’t help much when you’re dealing with functions from packages someone else has typed.
You seem to treat men as a solidary group while it is not. It's absolutely regular for a man to be treated as a second class citizen, by men. We are not "represented" in the halls of power, what an absurd idea.
This does halfway convince me to try it using jujitsu.. However I think the biggest barrier so far is that I understand how to undo mistakes in git but I don't in jujitsu.. if you accidentally run 'jj squash --into x --keep-emptied' when you meant 'jj squash --into n --keep-emptied', how do you undo that?